RE: New System Operator

We don't have an operator.  Our network administrator does "double duty" as
our tape changer on the iSeries.  Other tasks like this are "farmed" out to
the user community at our company.  I do the system admin otherwise.

Deb


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-nontech-bounces+debrakelemen=hotmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces+debrakelemen=hotmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:55 AM
To: 'Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: New System Operator

All,

Our i5 "System Operator" called in and quit with no notice recently, so we
need to hire a replacement.

System Operator is kind of a misnomer.  This is as much a clerical position
as it is a computer operator position.  In fact, the position has
LMTCPB(*YES).  The "big function in life" is to run all billing on a daily
basis, which includes invoices, picking labels, associated reports, etc, but
"Billing Clerk" doesn't seem to cut it.  But since we're a small office (5
clerks and an office supervisor), it's the typical
everybody-does-a-little-bit-of-everything now and then.

I'm actually wondering what to call the position.  The work consists of
things like:

Running the above mentioned billing
Clerical (like some filing in spare time)
Meter outgoing mail from time to time
Data entry
Mount tapes for backups
Verify backups completed
Paper/ribbon/toner changing on printers
Monitor QSYSOPR message queue
Word & Excel
Various short operations tasks on some server PCs

As you can see, a college educated computer type would be bored and
unchallenged, but the more he/she would understand computers, the better it
would be.  Do some of you have a similar position?